世の中に賢きこともはかなきも
思ひし解けば夢にぞありける
思ひし解けば夢にぞありける
- Roma-ji
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Yo no naka ni kashikoki koto mo hakanaki mo omoishi tokeba yume ni zo arikeru
- English Translation
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In this world of ours
things of worth and things of naught,
when I think them through
and untangle them at last,
I find that all was a dream.
- Meaning
- All things in this world, the worthy and the worthless alike, when I think them through, turn out to have been a dream.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 712
Headnote: "Composed and sent to someone on the theme that the world is not constant"
On the theme that the world is not constant, sent to someone, the poem says that all things, great and small, prove when thought through to have been a dream, showing an awakening to impermanence.
The Ruijū text and the text transmitted by Teika read line 3 as hakanaki mo. The source as displayed also shows warinaki in line 3; it is here read hakanaki mo. Kamo no Mabuchi called omoishi tokeba a later idiom.
Line 1 means "in this world."
Line 2 means "the worthy things."
Line 3 means "and the trifling," paired with line 2.
Line 4 means "when I think them through," shi emphatic.
Line 5 means "it was a dream," zo concluded by keru, answering as it were the question "is the world a dream?" of 705 of this book.
- Author
- Minamoto no Sanetomo
- Source
- Kinkaishu
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